Trip to Mount Roraima, Venezuela

Mount Roraima, Venezuela

This clip is about a 12-day trip to the top of the world - the summit of Roraima Mountain located in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. Half-day travel by four wheel drive on unpaved road, hiking (backpacking) for 2 days to reach the base, sleeping in a tent for 9 days total, away from civilization and conveniences. Taking baths in a river, eating packaged food, climbing the steep rock walls on the edge of the enormous sheer cliffs to 2,810 m (9,219 ft) elevation at the top, rain or shine.

Also known as Monte Roraima, Tepuy Roraima and Cerro Roraima, it's the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America. Most of Roraima is covered in the dense tropical rain forests of the Amazon Jungle. The mountain includes the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.

This trip was to the southeastern corner of Venezuela's Canaima National Park. The tabletop mountains of this lost world are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to some two billion years ago in the Precambrian with living species of exotic plants and animals found nowhere else on earth and older by age than dinosaurs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsQWq8nSUg

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/tepui-roraima/?ar_a=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Roraima

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